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LOCOMOTION papers(24,253)
Clear ✕Tessellated Biomes: Distributed Robotic Assemblies for Architectural Resilience
Sergio Mutis, Eric Hughes, Gert Duvenhage
2026
TACT-ful: Multi-Channel Terrain Affordance and Compliance Training for Payload-Robust Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion
Thanh Ly, Truong-Duy Dang, Chien Le +5 more
2026
Perceptive Behavior Foundation Model: Adapting Human Motion Priors to Robot-Centric Terrain
Zifan Wang, Yizhao Li, Teli Ma +5 more
2026
IntentNav: Learning Spatial-Visual Object Navigation from Human Demonstrations
Yuxin Cai, Zongtai Li, Maonan Wang +9 more
2026
End-to-End Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis Towards Unified, Tuning-Free Assistance
John Shim, Christoph Nuesslein, Sixu Zhou +3 more
2026
Rapid co-design of Buoyancy-assisted robots for Challenging Locomotion using Gaussian Evolutionary Specialists
Ankit Sinha, Nitish Sontakke, Dennis Hong +2 more
2026
Shield-Loco: Shielding Locomotion Policies with Predictive Safety Filtering
Aditya Shirwatkar, Sebastian Sanokowski, Shishir Kolathaya +2 more
2026
QuadVerse: An Integrated Framework Aligning Visual-Physical Reality for Quadruped Simulation
Yuxiang Chen, Yuanhao Wang, Ziheng Zhang +6 more
2026
Predictive Style Matching: Natural and Robust Humanoid Locomotion
Simeon Nedelchev, Ekaterina Chaikovskaia, Egor Davydenko +2 more
2026
T-GMP: Terrain-conditioned Generative Motion Priors for Versatile and Natural Humanoid Locomotion
Junhong Guo, Hao Hu, Chen Chen +6 more
2026
Three-dimensional hydro-cluttered locomotion by an undulatory robot
Tianyu Wang, Matthew Fernandez, Galen Tunnicliffe +10 more
2026
Learning All-Terrain Locomotion for a Planetary Rover with Actively Articulated Suspension
Arthur Bouton, Tristan D. Hasseler, Michael Paton +5 more
2026
Center of mass feedback for joint torque control during perturbed standing: a potential generalizable control approach for balance augmentation in wearable robots.
Jakubowski KL, Sawicki GS, Ting LH
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026
Ensuring Interaction Safety in Multitask Exoskeleton Control: A Simulation-Trained Variable Impedance Framework
Muyuan Ma, Houcheng Li, Haotian Zhai +4 more
2026
3D Underwater Path Planning via Generative Flow Field Surrogates
Zachary Cooper-Baldock, Paulo E. Santos, Russell S. A. Brinkworth +1 more
2026
Gotta Grow Fast: Design and Benchmarking of a Tip Mount for High-Speed Vine Robots
Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Robert Reeve, Ankush Dhawan +4 more
2026
TAGA: Terrain-aware Active Gaze Learning for Generalizable Agile Humanoid Locomotion
Peizhuo Li, Hongyi Li, Mingfeng Fan +9 more
2026
Tracking Control for a Dynamic Model of an Underwater Submersible
Matthew Hampsey, Pieter van Goor, Ravi Banavar +1 more
2026
Accelerating and Scaling MPC-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation
Junheng Li, Liang Wu, Sergio A. Esteban +3 more
2026
Preserving Full 6-DOF Actuation Under Abrupt Total Rotor Failures: Passive Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Using a Biaxial-Tilt Hexacopter
Yipeng Yang, Yiqiao Tang, Hao Zhang +6 more
2026
Exploring the Influence of Diameter-to-Length Ratios on Soft Robot Performance in Soil Environments.
Elagroudy MN, van de Molengraft R, van Beek FE
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
Learning Contact Representation for Leg Odometry
Emre Girgin, Cagri Kilic
2026
HORIZON: Recoverability-Governed Curriculum for Physical-Domain Scaling
Chenhao Bai, Liqin Lu, Kaijun Wang +5 more
2026
WAM-Nav: Asymmetric Latent World-Action Modeling for Unified Visual Navigation
Ning Yang, Yan Huang, Kaiwen Peng +9 more
2026